I’ve been encouraging lots of people lately to get setup using various services from their mobile phones… because it’s fun. If you have a mobile phone with an ok camera and some data access you can do it too.

Look at me I’m working from the OLPC offices today

Here’s how I’m working it.

I added both my YouTube and Flickr accounts to my Mugshot Page and Mugshot does the polling of my accounts notifying people when I upload new things. With Flickr you can upload by email and with YouTube you can setup a mobile profile. Tada, now when I upload a new photo or video I don’t have to worry that they have the right phone or cell plan to see my stuff. And Mugshot just makes it so everyone else doesn’t need a corresponding account at all the places I have, or that they log into them regularly to see what changed.

And I brought my dog to work

For a while I was trying to send camera photos around using SMS, but it never seemed to work. If someone was on a different network or phone didn’t allow photos or evil monkeys stole the message it wouldn’t seem to be delivered. However when I upload it to a site I can assume people will see it eventually and I can use the photo or video later in a blog post… like this.

Quietly, Mugshot signup has become open to anyone.